Shared datasets

The following datasets are available for
down-loading. Contact me
if you have any trouble with the format of the data or codebooks. In most cases, right click
on the mouse then 'Save target as...' to download the file.

May 6th 2010 British General Election Constituency Results Release 5.0

The May 6th 2010 British General Election Constituency Results are available for downloading in Excel, Google docs, and PASW/SPSS formats.

The dataset includes the British constituency results with the 2005 and 2010 share of the vote for each party, the candidates for each party (sex and race), the vote swing, and seat changes. The 2005 election results are based on the PA (Rallings and Thrasher) notional results (due to boundary changes since the previous election). The results data has been downloaded and merged from the Press Association results. Release 5 now includes constituency census data.

It would be appreciated if you could contact me with any corrections which need to be made to the data, or with any supplementary data. This release will be updated to include any additions and amendments in due course.

15th May 2010: Version 2

One error was noted in the syntax generating LD0510 (the change in the Lib dem vote). This has now been corrected and the cleaned version uploaded.

16th May 2010: Version 3

Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck) has added variables coding the sex and ethnicity of all candidates, and whether Labour selections used All Women Shortlists, in version 3 of the release which is now downloadable.

19th May 2010: Version 4

David Denver (Lancaster U) kindly double-checked all the results and noted minor corrections to six vote shares recorded in the PA result. In addition, Richard Cracknell at the House of Commons library is to be thanked for providing an accurate estimate of the total electorates in each seat, checked with the local authority returning officers, and the regional classification of all seats. All these amendments and additions are included in Version 4. A link to the preliminary House of Commons report on the results is also added above.

28th May 2010: Version 5

Alex Singleton at UCL has kindly matched 2001 Census data to the new Westminster constituency boundaries used for the 2010 election. These census variables have now been added to the constituency results dataset, including the distribution of SES, occupational and industrial sectors, ethnic groups, religion, migrants, 'Acorn' groups, and types of households. More details about the contruction of the census variables is available from http://www.alex-singleton.com and about the Acorn classification from (http://www.caci.co.uk/) . The Codebook Census Data can also be downloaded for more details.

If you have not yet tried them, you may want to check out the new Google chart facility, including a variety of designs, and the choice of interactive or dynamic charts for illustrating time-series trends.

This datasetis most suitable for comparisonsof 191 contemporary states, with a
limited number of lagged variables. It contains
data on the social, economic and political characteristics of 191
nations with over 1000 variables.

This dataset
is in a country-year
case format, suitable for time-seriesanalysis.
It contains data on the social, economic and political
characteristics of 191 nations with over 600 variables from 1971
to 2007. It
merges the indicators of democracy by Freedom House, Vanhanen,
Polity IV, and Cheibub and Gandhi, plus selected
institutional classifications and also socio-economic indicators from the World Bank. New
variables including the KOF Globalization Index and the new
Norris-Inglehart Cosmopolitan Index. Note that you
should check the original codebooks for the meaning and definition
of each of the variables. The period for each series also varies.
Note that the Excel version is for Office 2007 only. This is the dataset used in the book,
Driving Democracy.

This is an experimental
study by David Sanders and Pippa Norris designed to assess what
people learn during the 2001 British election campaign from five
different types of media (TV news, broadsheet newspapers, tabloid
newspapers, party election broadcasts, and party websites).

The report posted here
summarizes the research design. To try the experiment before
reading about their aims and design first complete the pre-test
questionnaire, then read either the broadsheet newspaper
compilation or browse the party website for about 30
minutes, then complete the post-test questionnaire. You can
analyze your response by comparing the pre- and post-test
questionnaires. An executive report posting the key results of the
analysis will be posted here in summer.

This is the survey of all
parliamentary candidates standing for the major British parties in
the 2001 general election, directed by Pippa Norris and Joni
Lovenduski. The project was administered at Birkbeck College,
University of London and funded by the Center for Public
Leadership at the Kennedy School.

The data has been anonymized to
preserve confidentiality and constituency-level data has been
merged with the survey data.

This dataset
contains the results of the 1992 survey of British Parliamentary
Candidates. The survey was conducted by Norris and Lovenduski with
replies from 1,676 respondents in all the major parties, (a 69%
response rate). The series of surveys was subsequently continued
in the 1997 and 2001 British Representation Studies (above).

The codebook and
questionnaire specify the contents. More details are available in
Pippa Norris and Joni Lovenduski Political Recruitment
(Cambridge University Press 1995)

The
BCS_1992 zipped folder now available contains all the
following released files.

This
provides materials about the national election study in the 1997
contest, including the cross-sectional post-election survey, the
campaign panel study, the survey of Scotland, the survey of ethnic
minorities, the contents analysis and related experimental
studies.